dd has said she would like a visual calendar thingemy

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where would I buy such a thing. I realised a couple of points that we have probelms every week are walking the dogs on weekend and changing days they are going to childminder. so I asked if it would help and she said it would. I know they exsist, with pictures to stick on sort of thing. tia

Like a visual timetable? if you google you will find them free, then just cut them out and laminating would be better.

You and your Dd could make one, you dont need to be creative you just need a lamintor some felt and some sticky velcro!

Dd3 and I made hers using instructions printed on to small strips eg. Brush your teeth, put on your tie, have a drink. Then we laminted them and stuck velcro on the back, each evening I stuck the ones she needed onto the felt and in the morning she could get herself ready for school following the steps, when each step was completedshe put the strip into an envelope. She could get ready without me nagging which was great for a demand avoidant child!

You could adapt using photos or pictures off google images.

Good luck

thanks, I found a couple to buy bu they were £££ and I could probably buy a laminator cheaper. we could do that with photos that would be cool. The other thing I was thinking was of painting a chunk of the dining room wall in blackboard paint and doing it that wayu.

You can get free symbols on www.do2learn.com or www.sparklebox.co.uk

You can use a pay site like mrsriley.com (you can upload photos to these and add text)

You can get stick on chalkboards if painting is too much of a faff - look on amazon

Or you can just make your own.

Whatever you do its good to incorporate changes so they don't get too fixed on it always being accurate as sometimes things change, people get sick etc. Regularly deliberately swap activities to explain can't do x anymore and will do y instead

If you have an iPad look at choiceworks apps. Super easy to update, can add pictures straight from pictures library and web, and all for £5 if I remember correctly.

The calendar, not the scheduler; I have both but preferred the first (re choiceworks).

genius

We have an organiser whiteboard. We can use magnets with it (not sure about the one in the link) but mostly we use pens and just write stuff in.